1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed selecting recorded program from TopField TS files
41 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
44 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
47 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
48 * Wayland shell surface window provider
49 * Wayland shared memory video output
50 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
51 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
52 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
55 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
56 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
59 * Chromecast output module
62 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
65 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
66 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
70 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
73 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
74 * Port to Yosemite X.10
77 * Batch convert support
80 * Support key accelerators
83 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
84 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
85 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
86 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
87 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
88 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
89 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
90 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
91 identifier (if there is one available)
94 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
95 --------------------------------
98 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
99 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
102 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
103 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
104 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
105 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
108 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
109 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
110 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
111 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
113 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
114 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
117 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
118 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
119 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
120 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
121 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
122 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
123 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
124 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
125 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
126 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
127 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
128 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
129 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
130 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
131 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
132 * New jpeg image decoder
133 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
134 * New SVG image decoder
135 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
136 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
137 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
140 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
141 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
142 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
143 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
144 * New png image encoder using libpng
147 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
148 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
149 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
150 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
151 synchronization and tracks exclusion
152 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
153 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
154 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
155 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
156 * Support Opus in MKV
158 * Basic support for WebVTT
159 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
160 * Support HDPR TS files
161 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
162 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
163 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
164 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
165 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
166 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
167 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
168 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
169 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
170 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
171 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
172 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
175 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
176 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
177 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
178 * New Android native window provider module
179 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
180 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
181 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
184 * New Oldmovie effect filter
185 * New VHS effect filter
186 * New Freeze effect filter
187 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
188 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
189 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
192 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
193 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
194 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
195 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
196 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
197 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
200 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
201 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
203 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
206 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
207 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
208 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
209 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
210 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
211 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
212 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
213 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
214 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
216 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
217 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
218 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
221 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
222 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
225 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
226 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
229 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
230 * Add record button in Qt menus
231 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
232 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
233 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
236 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
237 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
238 * Fixes for advanced preferences
239 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
240 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
241 * Option to increase playlist font size
242 * Improved crash log reporting
245 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
246 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
247 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
250 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
253 * iOS video output: use ios2
254 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
255 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
258 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
259 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
260 * Update of all translations:
261 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
262 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
263 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
264 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
265 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
266 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
267 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
270 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
271 --------------------------------
274 * Fix compilation on OS/2
277 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
279 Mac OS X audio output:
280 * Fix channel ordering
281 * Increase the buffersize
284 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
285 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
286 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
289 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
292 * Correctly support video-on-top
293 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
294 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
297 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
300 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
301 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
304 * Update British English
307 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
308 --------------------------------
311 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
314 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
317 * Fix DVD playback regression
318 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
319 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
322 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
323 --------------------------------
326 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
327 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
330 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
331 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
332 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
335 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
336 by updating codec libraries
337 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
338 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
339 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
342 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
343 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
344 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
345 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
348 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
349 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
352 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
353 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
354 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
355 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
356 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
359 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
360 * Fix record file names
363 * Fix minimal size possible on start
364 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
365 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
366 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
367 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
370 * Fix album art display on Windows
373 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
374 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
375 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
376 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
377 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
378 and Simplified Chinese translations
379 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
382 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
383 --------------------------------
386 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
387 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
388 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
389 audio devices on OS X
390 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
391 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
394 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
395 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
398 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
399 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
402 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
405 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
406 * Improve A-B loop control
407 * Fix album art update when changing media
410 * Add a language option in the interface
411 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
412 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
413 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
414 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
415 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
416 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
417 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
420 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
423 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
424 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
425 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
426 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
429 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
430 --------------------------------
433 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
435 * Fix some subtitles track selection
438 * VP9 support in WebM
439 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
440 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
443 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
444 * Support Speex in ogg files
445 * Fix some .mov playlists support
446 * Support Alac in mkv
447 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
448 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
451 * Fix DVB options parsing
452 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
453 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
456 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
457 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
460 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
461 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
464 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
465 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
466 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
467 * Fix play after drag'n drop
468 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
471 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
472 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
475 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
476 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
479 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
480 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
481 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
482 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
483 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
484 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
485 * Improves interface resizings
488 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
489 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
490 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
491 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
492 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
496 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
497 --------------------------------
500 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
501 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
502 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
503 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
504 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
506 3rd party libraries (contrib):
507 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
510 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
511 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
512 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
513 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
514 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
517 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
518 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
522 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
523 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
524 * Support for Ulead DV audio
525 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
526 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
527 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
528 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
529 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
530 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
531 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
532 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
533 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
534 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
537 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
538 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
539 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
542 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
543 remove support for previous OS X releases
544 * Major improvements in DASH support
545 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
546 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
547 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
548 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
549 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
550 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
551 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
552 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
553 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
554 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
555 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
558 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
559 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
560 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
561 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
562 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
563 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
564 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
565 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
566 * Support for more MJPEG streams
567 * Add support for liveleak streams
568 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
569 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
570 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
573 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
574 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
575 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
576 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
577 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
578 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
579 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
580 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
581 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
582 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
583 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
586 * New remapping channel filter
587 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
588 * New VSXu visualization plugin
589 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
590 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
591 * New gain audio filter
594 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
595 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
596 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
597 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
598 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
599 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
600 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
601 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
602 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
605 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
606 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
607 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
608 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
609 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
610 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
611 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
614 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
615 * Options support for AVIO output module
616 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
617 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
618 * Livehttp stream encryption support
619 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
620 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
623 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
626 * configurable password for the HTTP server
627 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
628 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
629 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
630 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
631 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
632 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
633 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
637 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
640 * Add support for multiple video outputs
641 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
643 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
644 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
645 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
646 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
647 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
648 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
649 VLC's internal volume level
650 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
652 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
653 selection and to manage the list of presets
654 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
655 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
656 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
657 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
658 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
659 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
660 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
661 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
662 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
663 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
665 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
666 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
667 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
668 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
669 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
670 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
671 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
672 3rd party applications
673 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
674 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
675 (system-wide settings)
676 * Add support for the Video Title option
677 * Add support for the Boss Key
678 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
679 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
682 * Partial support for Qt5.0
683 * Menus modifications and improvements
684 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
685 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
686 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
687 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
688 * EPG display fixes and improvements
689 * Add SD pixmap sources
690 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
691 * Display playlist total duration
692 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
693 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
694 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
699 * Extend sliders, offsets options
700 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
701 * Numerous fixes and improvements
702 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
705 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
706 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
707 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
708 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
709 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
710 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
711 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
712 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
713 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
714 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
717 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
718 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
719 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
720 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
721 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
722 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
724 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
725 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
726 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
727 * Broken crop video filter
729 * OSD parser and menu
730 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
731 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
732 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
733 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
737 * Update of all translations
740 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
741 --------------------------------
744 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
745 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
748 * Fix modplug security issues
751 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
752 --------------------------------
756 * Fix crash in QTsound
757 * Fix screen mouse file location
758 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
761 * Fix use after free in sgimb
762 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
765 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
768 * Fix interface crashes
769 * Fix autostart playback option
770 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
773 * update Welsh translation
774 * New Kannada translation
777 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
778 --------------------------------
781 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
782 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
786 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
789 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
792 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
795 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
799 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
802 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
805 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
806 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
807 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
810 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
811 --------------------------------
814 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
817 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
820 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
821 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
822 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
823 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
824 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
825 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
828 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
829 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
830 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
831 * 3rd party codecs updates
834 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
835 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
836 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
837 in the advanced preferences panel
838 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
839 * Fix crash within the video output code
840 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
841 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
842 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
843 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
845 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
848 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
851 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
852 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
855 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
858 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
859 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
860 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
861 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
862 Dutch, Danish, translations
863 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
866 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
867 --------------------------------
870 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
873 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
874 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
875 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
878 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
879 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
880 * Fix koreus lua parser
881 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
882 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
883 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
884 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
887 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
888 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
891 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
894 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
895 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
896 * Fix Time counter UI look
897 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
900 * Fix https streaming
903 * Fix audio and video track selection:
904 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
905 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
908 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
909 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
910 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
911 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
912 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
915 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
916 --------------------------------
919 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
920 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
921 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
922 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
923 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
924 during playback on Mac OS X
927 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
928 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
929 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
932 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
933 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
934 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
935 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
936 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
939 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
940 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
941 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
942 * Support Youtube live streams
945 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
948 * Fix media info dialog update
949 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
950 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
951 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
952 * Fix album art display at start
955 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
956 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
957 * Fix menus display and behavior
958 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
959 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
960 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
961 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
962 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
963 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
964 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
967 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
968 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
969 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
970 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
971 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
972 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
973 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
974 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
975 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
978 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
979 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
980 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
981 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
982 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
985 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
986 --------------------------------
989 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
992 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
993 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
996 * Add GateKeeper support
997 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
998 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
999 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1002 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1005 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1006 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1007 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1008 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1009 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1012 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1013 --------------------------------
1016 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1017 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1018 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1019 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1020 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1021 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1022 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1023 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1024 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1025 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1026 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1030 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1031 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1032 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1033 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1034 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1035 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1036 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1037 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1038 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1039 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1040 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1041 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1044 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1045 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1047 * Fix MP3 free format support
1050 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1051 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1052 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1053 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1054 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1057 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1058 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1060 Audio filters and output:
1061 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1062 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1063 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1064 * Do not apply volume in file output
1065 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1066 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1069 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1070 the persistant media library
1071 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1072 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1073 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1074 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1075 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1076 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1077 press on the Play/Pause button
1078 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1079 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1080 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1081 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1082 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1083 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1084 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1085 Synchronization panel
1086 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1087 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1088 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1089 * Fix crashes on exit
1090 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1092 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1093 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1094 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1095 automatically reset on the first launch.
1096 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1097 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1098 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1101 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1102 * Fixes for icecast SD
1105 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1106 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1107 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1108 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1109 * Fix tags and file names display
1110 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1113 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1114 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1117 * Fix display of some buttons
1118 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1119 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1122 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1123 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1124 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1127 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1128 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1129 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1130 Thai translations update
1131 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1134 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1135 --------------------------------
1138 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1139 * fix the samba module compilation
1140 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1141 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1142 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1143 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1146 * Support for MXPEG files
1147 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1148 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1151 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1152 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1153 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1156 * Fix ogm header creation
1159 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1160 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1163 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1164 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1165 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1166 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1169 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1172 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1173 * allow to hide the sidebar
1174 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1175 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1176 * noticebly faster launch time
1177 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1178 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1179 * improve track synchronization panel
1180 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1181 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1184 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1185 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1186 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1187 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1190 * fix for menus display
1191 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1192 * documentation update
1195 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1196 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1199 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1200 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1201 * Update Jamendo selections
1205 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1206 * fix a crash on VLM close
1209 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1210 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1211 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1212 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1215 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1218 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1219 ---------------------------------
1222 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1223 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1224 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1225 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1226 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1227 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1228 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1229 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1230 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1231 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1232 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1233 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1234 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1235 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1236 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1237 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1238 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1239 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1240 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1241 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1242 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1243 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1244 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1245 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1246 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1247 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1249 Important changes for packagers:
1250 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1251 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1252 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1253 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1254 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1255 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1256 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1257 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1258 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1259 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1262 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1263 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1264 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1265 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1266 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1267 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1268 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1271 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1272 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1273 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1274 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1275 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1276 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1277 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1278 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1279 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1280 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1281 * PulseAudio audio input support
1282 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1283 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1284 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1285 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1286 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1287 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1288 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1289 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1292 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1293 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1294 are notably concerned.
1295 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1296 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1297 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1298 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1299 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1300 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1301 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1302 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1303 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1304 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1305 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1306 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1307 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1308 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1309 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1312 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1313 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1314 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1315 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1316 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1317 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1318 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1319 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1320 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1321 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1322 * Improved support of tracker files
1323 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1326 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1327 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1328 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1329 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1330 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1331 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1332 and important cleanups and optimisations
1333 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1334 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1335 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1336 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1337 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1338 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1339 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1340 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1341 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1342 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1343 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1344 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1345 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1346 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1347 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1348 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1349 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1350 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1351 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1352 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1353 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1356 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1357 * New video output for iOS platform
1358 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1359 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1360 * Various vmem improvements
1361 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1362 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1363 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1364 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1365 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1366 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1368 Audio Output and Filters:
1369 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1370 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1371 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1372 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1373 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1374 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1375 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1376 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1377 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1378 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1381 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1382 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1383 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1384 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1385 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1386 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1387 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1388 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1389 * New anti-flickering filter
1390 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1391 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1392 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1393 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1394 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1395 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1396 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1399 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1400 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1401 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1402 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1403 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1404 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1405 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1406 * Major rework of VoD support
1407 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1408 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1409 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1410 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1411 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1412 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1413 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1414 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1415 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1416 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1419 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1420 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1423 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1424 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1425 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1426 list of available audio and video filters
1427 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1428 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1429 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1432 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1433 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1434 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1435 * id3tag: use taglib
1436 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1437 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1438 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1439 * removal of the noise filter
1440 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1441 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1442 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1443 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1446 * Update of translations for most languages.
1447 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1450 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1451 ----------------------------------
1454 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1455 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1458 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1459 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1462 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1463 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1464 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1467 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1470 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1471 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1474 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1477 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1478 ----------------------------------
1481 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1482 including support for OS X Lion
1483 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1484 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1487 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1490 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1491 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1492 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1495 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1498 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1499 ----------------------------------
1502 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1503 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1506 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1507 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1508 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1509 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1510 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1512 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1513 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1514 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1516 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1517 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1520 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1523 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1526 * Fix quitting on Linux
1527 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1531 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1534 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1537 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1538 ---------------------------------
1540 Windows and Mac OS X:
1541 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1544 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1545 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1548 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1551 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1554 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1556 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1557 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1559 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1560 * RTP output and XML export
1561 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1565 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1566 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1567 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1568 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1571 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1572 --------------------------------
1574 Windows and Mac OS X:
1575 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1578 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1581 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1582 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1583 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1584 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1585 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1586 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1589 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1590 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1594 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1595 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1596 * New Luganda Translation
1599 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1600 --------------------------------
1603 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1606 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1607 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1608 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1609 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1612 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1614 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1615 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1616 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1617 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1618 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1619 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1620 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1621 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1623 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1624 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1625 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1626 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1627 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1628 * Configure and build system improvements
1629 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1632 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1633 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1634 * New icelandic translation
1637 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1638 --------------------------------
1641 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1642 #234484 and #260719.
1645 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1646 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1647 and stability reasons
1650 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1654 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1657 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1658 ----------------------------------
1661 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1664 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1665 ---------------------------------
1668 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1669 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1670 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1671 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1674 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1677 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1678 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1679 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1680 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1683 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1684 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1685 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1687 Subtitles and renderer:
1688 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1689 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1690 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1691 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1692 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1695 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1696 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1697 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1698 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1701 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1702 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1704 Miscellaneous fixes:
1705 * KDE device solid actions
1707 * Transcode integer overflow
1708 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1709 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1712 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1713 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1714 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1717 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1718 ----------------------------------
1721 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1725 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1728 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1731 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1732 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1733 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1734 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1737 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1741 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1744 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1747 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1748 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1750 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1754 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1755 * Miscellaneous fixes
1758 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1759 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1760 French and Ukrainian
1761 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1762 * New Asturian translation
1765 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1766 ----------------------------------
1769 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1771 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1774 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1777 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1778 * Various fixes for Windows
1781 * New Armenian translation
1782 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1783 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1786 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1787 --------------------------------
1790 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1791 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1792 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1795 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1796 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1799 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1800 --------------------------------
1802 Access and demuxers:
1803 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1804 * fix for podcasts parsing
1805 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1808 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1809 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1812 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1813 * fix m3u playlists exports
1816 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1819 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1822 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1825 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1828 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1831 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1832 --------------------------------
1835 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1836 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1839 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1840 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1843 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1844 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1845 * fix console output encoding
1847 Interface and extensions:
1848 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1849 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1852 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1853 --------------------------------
1856 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1857 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1858 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1859 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1860 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1861 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1862 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1863 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1864 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1865 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1866 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1867 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1868 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1869 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1870 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1871 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1875 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1876 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1877 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1878 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1879 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1882 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1885 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1886 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1887 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1891 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1894 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1895 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1896 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1899 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1900 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1901 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1902 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1905 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1906 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1909 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1910 --------------------------------
1912 Important changes for users:
1913 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1914 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1916 Important changes for packagers:
1917 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1918 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1919 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1920 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1921 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1923 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1925 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1926 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1927 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1928 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1929 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1932 * Support for the sftp protocol
1933 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1934 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1935 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1936 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1937 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1940 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1941 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1942 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1944 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1945 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1946 * Invmem module improvements
1947 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1948 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1949 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1950 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1951 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1952 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1953 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1954 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1955 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1956 * Support for VP8 codec
1957 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1960 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1961 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1962 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1963 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1964 * Various EGP improvements
1965 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1966 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1969 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1970 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1971 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1972 * Podcast images are now displayed
1975 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1976 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1977 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1978 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1979 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1980 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1981 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1982 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1983 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1984 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1985 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1988 * New content extensions lua framework
1991 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1992 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1993 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1994 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1995 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1996 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1997 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2000 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2001 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2002 * Service discovery based on libudev
2003 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2006 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2007 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2008 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2009 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2010 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2011 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2012 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2015 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2016 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2017 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2020 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2022 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2023 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2026 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2029 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2030 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2031 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2032 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2033 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2034 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2035 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2038 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2039 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2042 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2043 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2044 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2048 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2049 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2050 * Improved Solaris port
2053 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2054 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2057 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2058 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2059 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2060 * transrate: broken since too long
2061 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2062 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2063 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2064 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2065 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2066 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2067 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2068 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2069 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2070 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2071 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2072 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2073 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2074 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2077 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2078 --------------------------------
2081 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2083 Decoders/Packetizers:
2084 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2087 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2088 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2089 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2090 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2091 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2094 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2095 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2098 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2099 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2102 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2103 and Walloon translations updated
2104 * Sinhala translation started
2107 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2108 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2111 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2112 --------------------------------
2115 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2116 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2119 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2122 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2123 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2126 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2127 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2128 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2129 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2132 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2133 --------------------------------
2136 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2137 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2140 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2141 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2144 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2145 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2148 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2151 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2152 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2155 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2156 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2159 * New Walloon translation
2160 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2163 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2164 --------------------------------
2167 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2168 regressions in most popular drivers
2169 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2172 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2173 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2174 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2177 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2178 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2181 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2182 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2183 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2184 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2185 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2188 * New udev module for linux
2191 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2194 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2197 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2198 --------------------------------
2201 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2202 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2203 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2206 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2207 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2210 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2211 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2214 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2217 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2218 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2219 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2220 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2223 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2224 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2225 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2226 - no support for Goom and SDL
2227 - limited text rendering support
2228 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2231 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2232 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2233 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2234 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2235 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2236 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2237 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2238 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2239 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2243 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2246 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2249 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2250 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2251 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2252 Arabic and French translation updates
2255 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2256 --------------------------------
2259 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2260 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2261 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2262 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2263 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2264 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2267 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2268 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2269 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2272 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2273 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2274 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2277 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2280 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2281 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2284 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2285 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2286 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2287 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2288 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2289 * Fix various crashes
2292 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2294 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2298 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2299 ---------------------------------
2303 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2304 See 'Access:' for more info.
2305 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2308 * Instantaneous pausing
2309 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2310 * Finer speed control
2311 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2312 * Timeshift for most medias
2313 * RTSP trickplay support
2314 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2317 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2318 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2319 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2320 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2321 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2322 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2323 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2324 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2325 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2326 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2329 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2330 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2331 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2332 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2333 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2334 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2335 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2338 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2339 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2342 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2343 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2344 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2345 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2346 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2347 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2348 * DVB scanning on linux
2349 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2350 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2351 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2352 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2353 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2354 * MTP device access on Unix
2355 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2356 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2359 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2360 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2361 Windows and Mac OS X.
2364 * Export the playlist in HTML
2365 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2366 * Better metadata handling and reading
2368 Linux/Windows interface:
2369 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2370 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2371 * Recently played items list
2372 * Interface toolbar customizations
2373 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2374 - More menus actions
2375 - Finer speed slider
2376 - Improvements on many dialogs
2377 - New dialog for plugins listing
2378 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2379 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2380 * Better integration in GTK environments
2383 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2384 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2385 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2386 * Additional usability improvements
2389 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2390 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2391 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2392 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2393 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2396 * New Maemo port with:
2397 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2398 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2401 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2404 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2405 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2406 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2407 * Support for latest iSight models
2410 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2411 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2414 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2415 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2416 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2417 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2418 The old image video output has been removed.
2419 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2420 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2423 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2431 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2432 --------------------------------------
2438 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2439 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2440 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2441 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2442 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2443 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2444 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2446 Various fixes to the following modules:
2449 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2450 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2451 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2453 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2458 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2459 ---------------------------------
2462 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2463 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2466 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2467 ---------------------------------
2470 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2473 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2476 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2477 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2478 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2479 main controller window.
2480 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2483 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2488 * Updates of other localizations
2491 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2492 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2493 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2494 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2495 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2498 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2499 ---------------------------------
2502 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2504 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2507 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2508 --------------------------------
2513 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2514 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2517 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2518 --------------------------------
2520 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2521 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2524 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2527 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2528 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2531 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2532 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2535 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2536 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2537 * Various fixed in playlist
2540 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2543 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2546 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2547 ------------------------------------
2549 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2550 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2553 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2554 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2555 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2558 * Stability fix for the video output.
2561 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2562 --------------------------------
2565 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2566 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2567 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2568 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2569 * Fixed update system bugs
2570 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2573 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2574 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2575 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2576 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2577 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2578 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2579 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2580 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2581 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2582 modern Mac OS X versions
2585 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2586 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2588 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2589 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2592 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2593 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2594 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2595 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2596 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2597 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2600 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2601 --------------------------------
2603 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2604 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2605 * Multiple bugfixes.
2608 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2609 --------------------------------
2611 * Multiple bug fixes.
2614 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2615 ---------------------------------
2619 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2620 recent to work correctly
2621 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2622 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2623 edit the ".hosts" file.
2624 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2625 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2626 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2627 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2628 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2629 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2630 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2631 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2632 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2633 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2634 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2635 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2636 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2637 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2638 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2639 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2640 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2641 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2642 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2643 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2644 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2645 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2646 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2647 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2648 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2649 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2650 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2651 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2652 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2653 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2654 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2655 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2656 and postproc modules.
2657 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2658 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2659 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2660 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2662 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2663 filter. For example:
2664 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2665 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2667 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2668 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2674 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2676 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2677 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2680 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2681 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2683 * Shoutcast TV listings
2684 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2686 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2687 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2689 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2692 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2693 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2694 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2695 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2696 * JACK audio input support
2697 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2698 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2699 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2700 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2701 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2702 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2703 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2704 (available as a separate download).
2705 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2706 * RTMP input support
2707 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2708 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2709 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2711 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2712 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2715 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2716 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2717 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2718 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2720 * APEv1/2 tags support
2721 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2722 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2724 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2725 * TiVo Series 2 support
2726 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2731 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2732 * Flash Screen Video support
2733 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2734 * DosBox Capture support
2735 * Karl Morton's Video support
2736 * limited atrac3 support
2738 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2739 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2740 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2741 * H.264 PAFF support
2742 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2743 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2744 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2745 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2746 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2749 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2750 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2751 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2752 * AQTitle subtitles support
2753 * MKV USF subtitles support
2754 * HTML-based subtitles support
2755 * MPSub subtitles support
2756 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2757 * MPL2 subtitles support
2758 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2759 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2760 * Realtext subtitle support
2761 * DKS subtitle support
2762 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2763 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2766 * Flash Screen Video support
2767 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2769 Video outputs and filters:
2770 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2771 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2772 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2773 * New puzzle video output filter
2774 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2775 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2777 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2778 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2779 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2780 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2781 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2782 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2783 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2784 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2785 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2786 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2787 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2788 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2789 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2790 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2792 Audio outputs and filters:
2793 * Replay gain support
2794 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2795 new scaletempo audio filter)
2796 * New spatializer audio filter
2797 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2800 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2801 * New RTP payload formats:
2802 * Speex voice audio codec
2803 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2804 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2805 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2806 * DCCP transport for RTP
2807 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2812 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2813 end-user suitable way.
2814 * Improved user interaction
2815 * Improved mouse gestures
2816 * Vastly improved Update checker
2817 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2819 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2820 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2822 * Improved video output features
2823 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2824 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2825 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2826 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2827 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2829 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2830 if libncursesw is available.
2831 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2832 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2833 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2835 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2836 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2837 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2838 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2839 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2840 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2841 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2842 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2845 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2846 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2847 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2850 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2851 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2852 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2853 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2854 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2855 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2858 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2859 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2869 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2870 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2871 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2874 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2875 ----------------------------------
2878 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2881 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2882 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2883 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2884 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2885 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2886 * Updated Polish translation
2889 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2890 ----------------------------------
2893 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2894 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2895 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2898 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2899 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2900 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2901 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2902 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2903 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2904 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2905 to an unexpected application termination
2906 * New Serbian translation
2907 * Updated Romanian translation
2910 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2911 ----------------------------------
2914 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2915 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2916 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2917 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2918 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2919 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2920 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2921 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2924 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2925 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2926 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2927 * Fixed AAC resampling
2928 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2929 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2932 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2933 ----------------------------------
2936 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2937 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2938 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2939 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2940 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2943 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2944 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2945 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2946 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2947 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2950 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2951 ----------------------------------
2954 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2955 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2958 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2959 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2960 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2961 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2963 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2967 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2970 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2973 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2976 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2979 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2980 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2981 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2982 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2983 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2985 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2986 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2987 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2988 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2991 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2994 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2995 ----------------------------------
2998 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2999 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3000 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3002 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3003 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3005 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3006 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3009 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3011 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3012 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3013 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3014 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3015 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3016 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3017 two different movies
3018 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3019 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3020 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3023 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3026 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3027 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3028 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3029 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3032 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3033 ----------------------------------
3035 Various bugfixes, notably:
3036 * Windows Vista compatibility
3037 * Cropping in Direct3D
3038 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3039 * RSS filter string overflow
3041 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3043 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3044 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3047 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3048 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3051 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3054 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3057 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3060 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3061 ----------------------------------
3063 Various bugfixes, notably:
3064 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3065 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3066 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3067 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3068 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3069 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3072 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3073 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3076 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3078 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3079 * Diverse usability improvements
3080 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3081 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3082 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3085 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3086 ---------------------------------
3088 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3089 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3092 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3095 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3096 --------------------------------
3099 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3102 * Support for RTSP authentication
3103 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3104 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3105 * ATSC support for DVB input
3106 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3107 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3108 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3111 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3112 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3113 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3114 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3115 * Matroska WavPack support
3116 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3117 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3118 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3121 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3122 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3123 * Improved libcaca support
3127 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3128 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3130 * Systray support in skins
3132 * Support for Apple Remote control
3133 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3134 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3135 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3136 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3138 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3141 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3142 Windows 9x/ME users:
3143 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3144 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3145 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3146 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3147 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3149 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3150 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3159 * Updates to the libvlc API
3160 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3163 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3164 --------------------------------
3167 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3168 * Support for downloading updates
3172 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3173 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3174 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3175 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3177 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3178 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3179 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3182 * Cook (Real audio) support
3184 Playlist / Services discovery:
3185 * XSPF playlist support
3187 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3190 * New JACK audio output
3193 * New video filters:
3194 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3195 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3196 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3197 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3198 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3199 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3202 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3205 * System to inform the user and request information
3206 - HTTP authentication
3210 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3211 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3212 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3215 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3216 - Improved playlist handling
3217 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3219 - Embedded Video output
3220 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3221 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3222 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3223 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3224 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3226 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3227 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3230 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3233 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3234 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3235 * Growl "Now playing" support
3238 * Ability to log to syslog
3239 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3242 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3244 * A bit more automatic testing
3247 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3248 ---------------------------------
3251 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3252 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3255 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3256 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3259 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3262 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3263 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3269 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3272 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3273 --------------------------------
3276 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3280 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3281 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3282 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3285 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3286 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3287 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3288 * GnomeVFS input module
3289 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3290 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3293 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3294 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3295 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3298 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3299 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3305 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3306 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3309 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3310 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3311 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3314 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3316 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3317 - New extended controls panel
3318 - New bookmarks window
3319 - Fixed playlist sorting
3320 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3322 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3323 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3324 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3325 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3329 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3330 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3332 - Include macro to include other files
3336 * Should now work outside IE as well
3339 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3342 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3343 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3346 The following languages were added:
3350 * Simplified Chinese
3351 The following languages were re-added:
3355 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3356 --------------------------------
3359 * Rewrite of the playlist
3361 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3362 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3363 * Preferences improvements:
3364 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3365 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3367 * Core image manipulation support
3368 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3369 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3370 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3371 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3372 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3373 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3374 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3375 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3376 * Access filter architecture
3377 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3378 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3382 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3383 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3384 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3385 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3386 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3387 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3388 * Massive Matroska improvements
3389 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3391 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3392 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3393 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3394 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3395 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3397 Decoders / Encoders:
3398 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3399 * PNG decoder/encoder
3400 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3401 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3404 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3407 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3408 * Brand new SAP module
3409 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3410 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3411 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3412 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3413 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3414 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3418 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3421 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3422 * Image file video output (png)
3423 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3424 * Improvements to wall video filter
3425 * Support for font color and opacity
3431 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3432 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3433 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3437 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3438 - Improved preferences
3439 - Improvements to the wizard
3440 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3442 - Redesigned playlist
3443 - Improved preferences
3445 - Support for multiple actions
3448 - Support for the new playlist system
3450 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3453 * Screensaver disabling fix
3454 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3455 * Support for no-decoration windows
3458 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3459 * The OpenGL video output is back
3460 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3461 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3462 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3463 is not yet available in the new module
3464 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3467 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3476 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3479 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3482 The following languages were added:
3488 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3489 --------------------------------
3492 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3493 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3496 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3497 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3498 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3501 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3504 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3507 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3510 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3511 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3512 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3516 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3518 * Support of playlist group announcement
3521 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3522 --------------------------------
3525 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3526 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3527 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3528 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3529 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3530 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3533 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3534 (Stream your desktop)
3535 * Improved DVD support:
3536 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3537 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3538 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3539 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3540 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3541 (selection of titles/chapters).
3544 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3545 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3546 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3547 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3548 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3549 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3550 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3551 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3552 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3553 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3556 * G.726 audio support
3557 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3558 * MPEG-4 text support
3559 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3560 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3561 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3565 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3566 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3567 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3568 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3569 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3570 * DVB subtitles encoder
3571 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3572 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3574 * Text track muxing for mp4
3575 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3576 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3577 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3578 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3579 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3580 * Improved ASF muxer
3582 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3583 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3584 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3587 * New audio equalizer filter
3588 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3589 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3590 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3591 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3594 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3595 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3596 with support for effects.
3597 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3598 - New filters can be streamed.
3599 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3600 - Centralized scaling and blending
3602 - "time", to display current time
3603 - "marq", to display a marquee
3606 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3607 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3608 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3609 * A few skins2 improvements
3610 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3611 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3612 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3613 * Improved CORBA control module
3616 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3617 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3618 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3621 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3622 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3623 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3626 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3627 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3628 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3629 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3630 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3633 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3636 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3637 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3640 * Server/client network synchronization module
3641 * VBrick streams fully supported
3642 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3646 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3647 --------------------------------
3650 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3651 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3652 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3653 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3656 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3657 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3658 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3659 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3660 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3661 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3662 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3665 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3666 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3667 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3668 * Improved directory access module.
3669 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3670 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3671 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3672 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3673 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3676 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3677 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3678 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3681 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3682 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3683 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3686 * Improved session announcement system.
3687 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3688 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3689 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3690 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3691 * Improved transrater.
3692 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3693 * New configuration system.
3694 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3697 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3698 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3699 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3700 * Supports scheduling.
3701 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3702 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3705 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3706 - Ability to embed video output.
3707 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3708 - Lots of improvements.
3709 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3710 - New design and set of icons.
3711 - Ability to embed video output.
3712 - Support for hotkeys.
3713 - Support for bookmarks.
3715 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3716 - Better hotkeys handling.
3719 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3720 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3721 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3722 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3725 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3726 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3727 * Improved Windows installer.
3733 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3734 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3737 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3738 ---------------------------------
3741 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3742 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3745 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3746 --------------------------------
3749 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3750 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3753 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3754 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3755 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3756 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3759 * Internal improvments
3760 * Improved import/export
3763 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3765 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3766 small and strange formats.
3768 * New MOD audio demux.
3769 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3770 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3771 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3772 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3775 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3776 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3777 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3783 * New opengl video output plugin.
3786 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3787 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3790 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3791 --------------------------------
3794 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3795 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3796 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3797 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3798 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3799 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3800 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3801 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3804 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3809 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3810 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3811 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3812 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3813 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3814 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3815 * Better Icecast support.
3816 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3817 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3820 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3821 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3822 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3823 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3824 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3825 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3826 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3829 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3830 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3831 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3832 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3833 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3834 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3835 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3836 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3837 * Preliminary RTP support.
3838 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3843 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3844 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3846 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3847 - Improvements and help in preferences
3848 - New streaming wizard
3849 - Revised Disc Open menu
3851 - Improvements of the standard pages
3852 - Support for new commands
3853 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3856 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3857 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3860 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3861 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3862 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3863 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3864 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3865 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3866 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3867 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3868 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3871 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3873 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3874 * Support for Panther.
3875 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3876 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3879 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3880 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3881 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3882 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3883 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3884 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3885 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3886 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3889 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3890 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3891 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3894 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3897 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3898 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3899 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3900 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3903 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3904 --------------------------------
3907 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3910 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3911 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3914 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3915 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3918 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3921 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3922 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3925 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3928 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3931 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3932 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3936 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3937 --------------------------------
3940 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3941 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3945 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3946 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3947 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3949 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3950 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3953 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3956 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3959 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3960 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3964 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3965 --------------------------------
3968 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3969 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3973 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3974 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3975 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3976 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3977 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3980 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3981 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3982 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3985 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3986 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3987 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3990 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3991 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3992 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3993 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3994 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3997 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3998 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3999 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4002 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4005 * Improved build system.
4006 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4007 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4008 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4009 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4012 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4013 --------------------------------
4016 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4019 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4020 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4021 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4022 * Video 4 Linux support
4023 * CD Digital Audio support
4024 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4027 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4028 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4029 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4030 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4033 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4034 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4035 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4036 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4037 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4038 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4039 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4042 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4043 * New HTTP remote control interface
4046 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4047 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4048 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4049 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4050 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4053 * New reset option for the preferences
4054 * You can set your language in the prefences
4055 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4056 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4057 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4058 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4061 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4062 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4063 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4066 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4067 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4068 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4069 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4070 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4071 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4072 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4073 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4074 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4075 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4078 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4079 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4080 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4081 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4082 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4083 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4084 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4087 * Interface localization
4088 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4089 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4090 * New full-featured Preferences window
4093 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4094 --------------------------------
4097 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4098 * support for skins at the interface level
4099 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4100 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4101 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4102 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4103 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4106 * fixed HTTP redirects
4107 * support for opening an entire directory
4108 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4109 * new video4linux access plug-in
4110 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4113 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4114 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4115 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4118 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4119 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4120 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4121 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4122 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4123 * new codec for raw I420 video
4124 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4127 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4128 (although it still misses some important features)
4129 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4132 * new HTTP output support
4133 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4134 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4137 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4140 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4143 * reorderable playlist
4144 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4145 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4146 * support for mono audio output devices
4147 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4148 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4149 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4150 * the messages window remembers more lines
4151 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4152 * http and ogg stream output options
4153 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4156 * new skinnable interface
4157 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4159 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4160 * support for FLAC audio format
4161 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4163 * network tab in the interface
4164 * "apply" handling in preferences
4167 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4168 ---------------------------------
4171 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4172 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4173 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4174 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4176 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4177 * DTS S/PDIF support
4180 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4181 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4182 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4183 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4186 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4187 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4190 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4193 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4196 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4198 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4199 * rc interface is now fully useable
4200 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4203 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4204 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4205 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4206 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4207 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4209 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4210 * support for mouse gestures
4211 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4214 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4215 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4218 * improved ID3 tag detection
4219 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4220 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4221 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4223 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4226 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4227 ---------------------------------
4230 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4231 English was set as the preferred language
4234 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4235 --------------------------------
4238 * new mouse gesture interface
4239 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4243 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4244 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4245 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4248 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4249 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4253 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4256 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4257 without the user consent
4260 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4262 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4263 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4264 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4267 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4268 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4269 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4270 * playlist enhancements
4271 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4272 * new step forward/step backward commands
4273 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4274 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4275 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4278 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4279 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4280 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4283 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4284 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4287 * native video output is working again
4288 * only commandline interface support
4289 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4292 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4293 --------------------------------
4296 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4297 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4298 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4299 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4300 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4301 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4302 and A/52 streams are supported)
4303 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4308 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4309 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4310 * VCD entry points support
4311 * VCD image file support
4314 * support for *.asf format
4315 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4316 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4317 * support for ogg encapsulation
4318 * support for raw DV format
4319 * support for *.wav format
4320 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4323 Stream discovery & playlists:
4324 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4325 * support for .m3u file format
4326 * support for .asx file format
4327 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4330 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4331 (only available with the .avi demux)
4332 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4333 * support for raw PCM data
4334 * support for Cinepak video codec
4335 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4336 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4337 * support for Xvid codec
4338 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4339 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4340 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4342 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4344 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4347 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4350 * new WxWindows interface
4351 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4352 device and the channels configuration
4353 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4354 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4355 format that VLC can play
4356 * new swedish translation
4357 * enhancements of the playlist window
4358 * new messages window to see debug info
4359 * fixed a few crashes
4362 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4363 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4364 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4365 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working